Pioneer Fund

The Pioneer Fund, Inc. "is a New York 501(c) (3) not-for-profit foundation established in 1937 to advance the scientific study of heredity and human differences."

Founders
Accessed October 2009:


 * Wickliffe Preston Draper (1891-1972)
 * Harry Hamilton Laughlin (1880-1943)
 * Frederick Henry Osborn (1890-1981)
 * John Marshall Harlan (1899-1971)
 * Malcolm Donald (1877-1949),

Directors
Accessed October 2009:

"When Harry Weyher died on March 27, 2002, J. Philippe Rushton, Professor of Psychology at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, a long-time Pioneer grant recipient, was appointed the new president. At the same time, Weyher's widow, Mrs. Michelle Weyher, was appointed a Director, as was Richard Lynn, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Ulster, also a long-time grantee. They joined existing  Board members R. Travis Osborne, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia, and Karl Schakel, an engineer and businessman-rancher from Colorado."

Past Directors of the Pioneer Fund and Years Served


 * Wickliffe P. Draper [1937-1972]
 * Harry Hamilton Laughlin [1937-1941]
 * Frederick Henry Osborn [1937-1958]
 * John M. Harlan [1937-1954]
 * Malcolm Donald [1937-1949]
 * John H. Slate, Jr. [1941-1946]
 * James P. Kranz, Jr. [1948]
 * Henry Rice Guild [1948-1974]
 * Charles Codman Cabot [1950-1973]
 * John M. Woolsey, Jr. [1954-1959]
 * Harry F. Weyher, Jr. [1958-2002]
 * John B. Trevor, Jr. [1959-2000]
 * John F. Walsh, Jr. [1971-1973]
 * Henry E. Garrett [1972-1973]
 * Marion A. Parrott [1973-2002]
 * Thomas F. Ellis [1973-1977]
 * Eugenie Mary Ladenburg Davie (Mrs. Preston) [1974-1975]
 * Randolph L. Speight [1975-1999]
 * William Dawes Miller [1983-1993]
 * Karl Schakel [1993-2002]
 * Edwin D. Morgan [2000-2001]
 * R. Travis Osborne [2000-present]

Resources

 * Adam Miller, "Professors of Hate," Rolling Stone magazine, October 20, 1994.
 * Charles Lane, "The Tainted Sources of 'The Bell Curve'", The New York Review of Books, December 1, 1994. Response
 * Michael G. Kenny, "Toward A Racial Abyss: Eugenics, Wickliffe Draper, And The Origins Of The Pioneer Fund", Journal Of History Of The Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 38(3), 259–283 Summer 2002.
 * William H. Tucker, The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund (University of Illinois Press, 2002).

Contact

 * Web: http://www.pioneerfund.org/

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * Harry F. Weyher, Jr. (1921-2002) served as the third president of the Pioneer Fund for 44 years (1958-2002).
 * J. Philippe Rushton
 * Linda Gottfredson
 * Charles Murray and Richard J. Hernstein
 * Institute for the Study of Man - grantee
 * International Association for the Advancement of Eugenics and Ethnology - grantee
 * John Tanton
 * Frederick Henry Osborn - former president